Sideshow is
taking a new bold step in its story and one I’m very glad they’re taking. They
started to reinvent franchises’ characters giving them a totally new look. It
started with Masters of Universe franchise, then the Ralph McQuarrie's reivented Star Wars key characters and now with Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles. Their take on the green guys is the coolest among the enormous variety
of TMNT available on the market today, as seen by this newly released photo of
Leonardo. They tried to approximate the face of Leo to the one of a real turtle
yet maintaining the cartoon feel and giving it a lot of personality on both the
expression and pose. I like it a lot.
Two things
I disliked about the picture that I hope to be solved when developing is finished:
the right arm and the head have noticeable spaces in between them and the body.
I guess these two parts will come separated from the figure. No problem about
that, since the joints are unnoticeable. They’ve made an excellent job on Daredevil’s
head and I hope they fix this by the time of launching. Other than that, I love
the cartoonish realistic look of Leonardo and am very hyped about this
collection. (Even though I’m saving my money for Deadpool…but, hey, dream is
for free, huh?).
I hope Sideshow
continues to pursue this trail and try to do it with more franchises. I would
love to see an alternate take of a Marvel figure (like XM fantastic take of Batman
Samurai). But, then again, I think is ask too much from the licenser. Even
though the aforementioned Deadpool takes some artistic liberties from the movie
or comics character. Let’s just wait and see.
I like how
things is going on Sideshow (creatively speaking!). On the other (dark) side, (besides inflating prices and huge edition sizes) I do not like the repaint
step they took: besides the regular R2-D2, now there’s an unpainted and imperial
painted one. The same figure with different paintings, this is ludicrous. Not to
mention the repainted premium print formats of DC girls. And divide the X-Men Premium Art Print in two and selling like new products?! These are a low blows!
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